Mereo

joined 2 years ago
[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A little explanation, there are two different types of drivers:

  • Kernel Drivers: The low-level software that directly controls your Video card, managing essential functions like memory and power.

  • User-space Drivers: The higher-level software that translates graphics commands from applications and games into instructions your video card can understand.

Here NVIDIA wants to kill the proprietary kernel driver and have the open source kernel included in the kernel by default. This means that the distros or you simply need to download the user-space binary blob driver without having to recompile the kernel driver every time the Nvidia drivers are updated.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

For me, VRR is crucial as I play a lot of FPS games or else, I don't feel that the mouse is the extension of my hand. That's why I switched from Gnome to KDE.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In KDE, I agree. I have an AMD video card and I've been gaming in KDE Wayland for quite a while now.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yup, this is huge. Wayland gaming is now a possibility. With Explicit Sync (needed for NVIDIA users) and VRR, there's now no excuse to keep gaming in X11 in both DEs.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nonsense. This is huge, as I suspect many people, like myself, switched to KDE because it was the DE that was perfect for gaming in Wayland.

So this is huge for the community! Gaming is now possible in two of the most popular and used DEs.

As for the weather application. Don't blame GNOME, blame the weather provider (OpenWeather).

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Excellent explanation. Thank you

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Voyager. It's an Apollo like client.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 88 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is the way. They owned their mistake. Respect.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I understand it, Haiku is not based on BeOS, but is an open source re-implementation of BeOS, just as Linux is not based on Unix, but Unix-like: https://www.osnews.com/story/24945/a-programmers-introduction-to-the-haiku-os/

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's all about getting users to buy new PCs that can run the AMAZING AI! (I'm being sarcastic here). It's good for AMD and Microsoft's pockets.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha. we're officially old. I was an extremely competitive gamer back then. I played Quake 3, UT 99, Tribes 2, America's Army, etc. I was even in a Tribes 2 squad and we basically practiced for tournaments every day.

But now that life is stressful enough with the responsibilities I have, I just can't play competitive games anymore. I just want to enjoy the story. I no longer have the stamina and the reflex for competitive games anymore.

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